QUIZ 2: INDUSTRIAL LIFESTYLE
Edison's light bulb and Bell's telephone revolutionized communication.
False
Millions of people moved to the nation's rural areas hoping to improve their economic positions.
False
The Embargo Act decreased production while war boosted it.
False
The Great Railroad Strikes were violent outbreaks against unions.
False
Which of the following was the first labor organization that began in 1866?
National Labor Union
How did businesspeople form corporations?
They combined their capital and received permission from the government to merge.
Which of the following statements best describes most lower-income people living in cities?
They lived in tenements and worked in factories.
Factory production was greatly improved by standardized parts and assembly line production.
True
Fulton's Folly, the Model T, and the Tom Thumb improved distribution of goods.
True
Labor laws and antitrust laws kept corporations under control.
True
People who lived in the cities were forced to rely on others for employment.
True
Trade unions wanted to better the bargaining position of workers.
True
Workers dreaded layoffs because they had no unemployment insurance.
True
Five factors that increased industrial growth in the United States included:
better transportation war modern technology Embargo Act of 1807 assembly line production
Three advantages that corporations brought to America were:
employment lower prices a share of the profits
Four factors luring rural people to the big city included:
higher wages cultural and educational opportunities the opportunity to get rich recreational advantage
Three improvements sought by workers included:
higher wages fewer hours better working conditions
Factory employees consisted of which five groups of people?
managers immigrants unskilled laborers artisans children
In early America, women and children who had to work were readily employed by factories because they were --- than men.
paid less
Five factors that make a corporation a mammoth enterprise include:
stockholders modern machinery consolidation specialists stifling competition
The three major problems brought about by urbanization were:
tenements crime traffic congestion
By World War I, five main power sources included:
water steam electricity coal oil